4-letter words starting with n
- napo — a South American river flowing from central Ecuador through NE Peru to the Amazon River. about 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- naps — Plural form of nap.
- nara — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- narc — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nard — an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
- nare — Nostril found in the beak of a bird.
- nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
- nart — (obsolete) Contraction of ne art.
- nary — not any; no; never a: nary a sound.
- nasa — National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- nase — A freshwater potamodromous fish, Chondrostoma nasus.
- nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- nasi — Lake, a lake in SW Finland: city of Tampere located on its S shore. 20 miles (32 km) long; 2–8 miles (3.2–12.9 km) wide.
- nass — a river in W British Columbia, Canada, flowing SW to the Portland Inlet, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, near Prince Rupert. 236 miles (380 km) long.
- nast — Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- nata — for an unforeseen need or contingency.
- nath — (obsolete) hath not.
- natl — national
- nato — an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression.
- nats — Nationalists, esp. Scottish Nationalists
- naut — nautical
- nave — the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the congregation.
- navy — the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler.
- nawk — New AWK. AT&T. Pattern scanning and processing language. An enhanced version of AWK, with dynamic regular expressions, additional built-ins and operators, and user-defined functions.
- nays — and not only so but; not only that but also; indeed: many good, nay, noble qualities.
- naze — a cape at the S tip of Norway, on the North Sea.
- nazi — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- nbpa — National Basketball Players Association
- ncaa — National Collegiate Athletic Association
- nccl — National Council for Civil Liberties
- ncea — National Certificate of Educational Attainment
- ncis — National Criminal Intelligence Service
- ncrl — Software Writer's Language
- ncsa — National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- ncte — National Council of Teachers of English
- ncua — The NCUA is a US government agency that monitors federal credit unions.
- ncvo — National Council for Voluntary Organizations
- ndis — Network Device Interface Specification
- neaf — Alternative form of nief (
- neal — a male given name.
- neam — (dialectal) Alternative form of eam.
- neap — designating tides midway between spring tides that attain the least height.
- near — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
- neat — in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition: a neat room.
- nebe — northeast by east
- nebn — northeast by north
- nebo — Mt. See under Pisgah.
- nebs — Plural form of neb.
- neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- nedc — (the former) National Economic Development Council